The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1887-03-24

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the widely known Democrat and LAWYER.
was held at his late residence at Allston.
Mass. The General Assembly of Vir-
Slnla met IN extra session.. y bill to in
crease the salary of the Governor of Ohio
10 So, 600 per annum passed the Senate of
! that State Wednesday The President
has appointed G. II. j. Taylor, of Kansas,
| (colored) Minister to Liberia; also JAS r.
Hosmer, of New York, Consul General to
Guatemala
Friday, March 18th.
The great jeweler, Tiffany, has disowr-
ed his son on account of the young mans
clandestine marriage, while intoxicated,
with a woman of not the best character
The young man has left his wife and gone
to Europe. The State De Jartment has
received a certified copy of the will of Jose
Sevilla, who recently died at Lima, Peru.
bequeathing $500, 600 to be paid to the
city Of New York for the establishment
and maintenance of a school for poor fe-
male children between the ages of and Is
years. Stewart Brothers, general mer-
chants of London, have failed Their liza
blllties are placed at 800, 900 . Hon.
John G. New, of Indianapolis, Ind, editor,
banker and politician, for four years
United States Treasurer under Grant and
afterwards Assistant Secretary of the
Aioe'oui J, Ids oeeH otIlckeH with paraislS
The Georgia, Caroli,ia & Northern
Railroad Co., has consolidated; Gen r. f.
Hoke as President The road will run from
Atlanta, Ga, to Monroe, N. y.
Saturday, March 18th.
The Richmond and ST. James Hotel at
Buffalo, N. Y, was burned. The loss was
half million dollars. Twelve lives were
lost. The total receipts of cotton since
Sept. 1st, has been 1874, Az bales A
mob broke down the jail door in Troy,
Tenn, and hanged the mulatto murderer
of young white man Rock Hill, s.
c., had a $40, 900 fire The police have
become alarmed at ST. Petersburg They
have been Informed that numerous wide
spread bands of nihilists are ready for i'm
mediate action. Some of the leading
members of the Roman Catholic church
are taking steps to get the Pope to canon
lZe Mary, Queen of Scots. The applica-
ton will be based on the fact that Mary
was the last of the Roman Catholic sover-
elgns of Scotland The defalcations of
Walter T. Lawton, of the Navassa Fertil-
zer Co, New York, will amount to half
million. Col. W.P. Cannaday, Sergeant
alarms of the Z. S. Senate, sustained Sc
we're injury to one of his legs by his horse
falling with him while riding on Pennsyl-
vania Avenue, Washington, D. c..
Charles F. Freeman, an Adventist, who
killed his child in 1888 as sacrifice to
God, has been acquitted by reason of real
or supposed insanity.
Sunday, March Goth.
AT Peoria, H., the negro miners who
were imported from Great Grape creek to
fill the strikers places there have also quit
work, their employers having refused to
accede to their demand for an advance in
wages to three cents per bushel. Before
striking they got enough provisions from
the truck stores on credit to last a month.
The citizens of Buffalo, n Y, held a |
meeting and decided that the telephone
and electric wires must go under ground |
ExSp eaker Carlisle and wife will sail |
for Europe in June. :. William J Hutch
inson, formerly Wall street broker, was |
arrested yesterday on charge of fraudul- |
emily converting $35, 900 worth of stocks
to his own USE. In England the Toy |
leaders have been compelled to concede
revision of rents. They were brought to
terms by Parnells tirmness. 80. The police
of st. Petersburg unearthed nihlIst rem
devious, arrested fifty nihilists, unearthed |
an internal machine and a printing press.
The students of the University loudly ap-
plauded the rector who denounced Mill |
ism. Three of the students, however, were
implicated in the attempt To kill to Czar.
Mayor Hewitt is devoting his atten-
ton to d determined effort to close up the |
thieves resorts and gambling house in |
New York City. 1t is the biggest job he |
has yet undertaken. Buffalo Bill, the |
great scout, has been appointed Aid de |
Camp to the Governor of Nebraska.
Rev. Dr.. Fulton has resigned his pastorate |
in New York and proposes to devote his |
life to the conversion of the Roman Cath |
.f h1
abuse. The New York Herald adyses him |
to join the Catholics if he wishes to ruin |
them 49,. The ladies of Mansfield, Pa,
have boycotted the Advertiser because it |
published whiskey advertisements.
Monday, March 2ist.
Senator Thurman's presence in Wash
ington causes much gossip and speculation
as to what position the President wants
visit is entirely without political signifi-
canoe. -. The President offered ex Cover
nor Robinson, of Massachusetts, one of the
Railroad Commissionerships but he de
ciined it. The President finds it hard to
get the best men to take the positions and
Is pressed by a thousand untitled men who
want a position. The Republican Penn
sylvania Legislature is discussing what to
do with Sam Randall. They are going to
re-apportion the Districts and they can
leave Randall out and substitute Repub-
lican without gerrymandering. In fact
to keep him in they have to throw all the
Democratic wards together In return
for the kindness of the Republicans Mr.
Randall votes for High Tariff. Some of
them favor putting him out and making
the district Republican and a bill to effect
that has been offered. Some Republican
Senators will fight any change The
citizens of Brooklyn held meeting, Rev.
Chas. H. Hall, d. D., presiding, and de-
cided to erect a monument to Mr.. Bee cher
and to start a public library to be named
for their greatest citizen. +. Ex Governor
Moses, of South Carolina, is thought to be
dying in Boston.
Tuesday, March 22.
John Bright, in a letter with reference
to Home Rule, says that majority of the
people in Ireland would vote that their
country be made a State Of the American
Union if their present leaders instructed
them to do SO, but that that would be no
leason why the kingdom should consent.
-. The Virginia House Of Delegates
adopted resolutions that the committee on
Roads investigate the management of the
4. r. Commissioners office to ascertain
whether or not partiality has been shown
by the Commissioner to any of the rail
roads of the State, and if he has not un-
justly pursed the Atlantic and Danville
COMPANY and whether said office has